A new report at Fox News explains that newly declassified government papers have confirmed that Barack Obama was at key meetings with key government bureaucrats “that led to critical steps in the opening of the Trump-Russia investigation.”
That would be “Russiagate,” the fabricated conspiracy theory apparently started by Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign that claimed Trump’s campaign was colluding with Russia.
A years-long investigation by a special counsel came up with no evidence, but that didn’t stop some diehard anti-Trump activists like then-Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., from claiming they’d seen the evidence. Some even continue to claim it to this day.
The investigation, called “Crossfire Hurricane,” now is being exposed by government documents being released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
Obama was, according to Trump, a “ringleader” in the conspiracy. Obama denies that, and his spokesman described the suspicions as “bizarre” and “ridiculous.”
However, Obama and his key administration players now are under investigation by Congress, and the Department of Justice, in the case and the Fox report cited a number of meetings at which the scheme was promoted, and Obama was there, over and over.
For instance: On Aug. 3, 2016, then-CIA chief John Brennan reportedly briefed Obama on how Clinton was allegedly creating a plan to link Trump to Russia, in order to distract voters from her own email scandal.
Another meeting, July 31, 2016, involved a decision to open the investigation into the Trump campaign.
Fox said it got details about a Counterintelligence Operational Lead in 2020 that said, “The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate.”
It added, “Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date. An exchange (REDACTED) discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Other details charge that foreign “sources” allegedly linked to left-wing billionaire George Soros, an ardent critic of Trump, were sending emails about the new “probe.”
One activist confirmed in an email, “The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid …. Julie (Clinton Campaign Advisor) says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”
That same adviser later said that Clinton approved the “idea” about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections.”
“This should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level,” the activist wrote. “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel manic since both POTUS and VPOTUS have acknowledge the fact IC would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable.”
After Trump won the election, the report said, Obama warned Trump not to have Michael Flynn, formerly Obama’s head of military intelligence, in his administration.
He later was caught up in Russiagate, pleading guilty to making false statements about a meeting with a Russia official.
Later, the report said, the DOJ dropped its case when documents appeared showing agents discussing their motivations for interview him, in order to “get him to lie.”
He ultimately charged Obama’s supporters set him up in a “perjury trap.”
The report explained, “Current Director of National Intelligence Gabbard recently declassified documents claiming that the Obama administration ‘manufactured and politicized intelligence’ to allegedly create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise. Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was ‘probably not trying…to influence the election by using cyber means.’”
Other documents have undermined the Democrat claims about Trump and Russia, including then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper who said, “Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome.”
Further, Brennan told Congress any hacking “did not achieve a notable disruptive effect.”
And the report cites declassified information in charging Obama officials allegedly “leaked false statements to media outlets” claiming that “Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election.”
Then-President Obama held an Oval Office meeting Jan. 5, 2017, with then-FBI Director James Comey, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and then-Vice President Joe Biden,” the report said, when Comey reportedly lobbied Obama to hide “Russia” information from the incoming Trump administration.
